The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-05-14
uEIsE'S ItICuNESs.


Tho Southern Algebra ut the breaking
Out Of tho War. :.
Washington Di.pateh. sH.1-
A friend has handed In an old volume
which Is old enough to be new. It Is a
treatise on algebra, and a very good one
in the main, written by General D. II.
Hill, the we'll known Confederate corps
commander, when he was professor Of
mathematics in Davidson College, North
Carolina, just before the war. The ex.
ampleB by which he illus.rated bis text
while interesting can not DO as highly
commended as tho plan OF his work. They
indicate the kind OF sectional training
which the youth q. this institution re-.
ceived. The following are examples:
"a man In Cincinnati purchased 10000
pounds OF bad pork, at one cent per
pound, and paid 80 much per pound to
put It through chemical process, by
which 1t would appear sound, and then
sold 1t at an advanced price, clearing $3.50
by the fraud. The price at which he sold
the pork per pound, multiplied by the
cost per pound OF the chemical process,
was three cents. Required the price at
which he eold 1t, and tho cost OF the
chemical process"
1.-THE field Of battle at Buena Vista Is
elk and halt miles from Saltiilo. Two
Indiana volunteers ran away from the
field Of battle ct the same time; one ran
half 3 mile per hour faster than the other,
ind reached Sa!tillo minutes and 54G.1l
seconds aooner than the other. Required
their respective rates Of travel"
"a Yankee mixes certain number Of
wooden nutmegs, which cost him one
quarter OF a cent piece, with quantity
Of real nutmegs worth four cents a piece,
and sells the whole assortment for forty
four dollars, and gainu three dollars and
seventy-hve cents by the fraud. How
many wooden nutmegs we're there?"
"a gentlemen In Richmond expressed a
Willingness to liberate his slave, valued ct
81 600, upon the receipt OF that sum from
charitable persons. He received contribu.
tons from tWonty.four persona; and OF
these there were fourteen.nineteenth
fewer from the North than from the South
and the average donation OF the former
wss fouI.fiiths smaller than that Of the
latter. What WAS the entire amount given
by the latter?"
1.-THE year in which Decatur published
bis official letter from New London, stat.
ing that the traitors OF New England
burned blue lights on both points Of the
harbor, to give notice to the British Of his
attempt to 90 to sea, is expressed by four
diglts. The sum OF the frat and fourth ia
equal to half the second; the first aid
third are equal to each other. The sum
OF the first and accond is equal to three
times the fourth and the product Of tue
hrst and second is equal to eight. Rs
CURED the ysas'
The Year ~ which the Governors OF
Massachusetts anu Connecticut sent tres.
sonable messages to their respective Leg.
islatureB is expressed By four digits. The
square root OF the frat and second is equal
to three; the square root Of the prouuc.
of the second and fourth is equal to four;
the first is equal to the third, and is one
halt Of the fourth. Required tho year."
"Some Of the New England States were
lully and come partially represented in
the Hartford Convention which, in the
year 1914, gave aid and comfort to the
British during the progress OF the war. II
four be added 10 ihe number OF States
fully and partially represented, and the
square root OF the sum be taken, the result
will be the number Of States fully repre-.
sented but II eleven DO added to the sum
Of the States fully and partially represent
cd, and tho square root OF the sum be
taken, the result will be.equalto the gquare
root Of eight times the number Of States
partially represented. Required the num-
Der Of statea fully and partially repre-.
sented."
in theyear 1887 all the Pequod Indians
that survived the slaughter on the Mystic
River were either banished from Connecti-
cut or sold into slavery. The square root
Of twice the number Of survivors is equal
to one.tenth thst number. What was the
number n